How marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.
The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and #MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. They show how marginalized groups, long excluded from elite media spaces, have used Twitter hashtags to advance counternarratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent.
The authors describe how such hashtags as #MeToo, #SurvivorPrivilege, and #WhyIStayed have challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence; examine the voices and narratives of Black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls, #YouOKSis, and #SayHerName; and explore the creation and use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. They investigate the digital signatures of the "new civil rights movement"--the online activism, storytelling, and strategy-building that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter--and recount the spread of racial justice hashtags after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile incidents of killings by police. Finally, they consider hashtag created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.
1 有用 栞 2020-07-18 11:28:11
textbook 快速翻过,从占领华尔街到米兔到BLM,以及其他各种twitter上的hashtag movements做分析,但觉得写的不够深入。另外可能是我比较悲观,对作者们对twitter作为搞活动的平台的乐观态度,不太能认同(虽然他们也提到了这个platform存在的问题和审查等等)。
0 有用 Steppenwolf 2022-05-19 07:58:04
本科选读过几个chapter,打算飞机上重读一遍然后去追星
1 有用 mob frontier 2022-05-31 07:39:15
由于陌生的语境,理解起来会有些差异,算是对Hashtag Activism的一个入门(伴随不远的上个10年和社交媒体的影响),读起来更像是论文集,而非叙述录。一时的Metoo,BLM,根源的发展和大洋彼岸的困境(或许也是一部分全球的困境)。然所选取的案例有点同质化,新鲜感消失,后记对网络战的关注,不免让人联想霏霏,希望Twitter and Teargas 会更具整体感一点
1 有用 早起读书看报 2021-03-01 14:30:59
过完了,写的最好的是introduction……就是一本Twitter女性主义标签运动介绍,真的只是一本介绍,学理性太弱了,没看出来研究方法的意义……
1 有用 mob frontier 2022-05-31 07:39:15
由于陌生的语境,理解起来会有些差异,算是对Hashtag Activism的一个入门(伴随不远的上个10年和社交媒体的影响),读起来更像是论文集,而非叙述录。一时的Metoo,BLM,根源的发展和大洋彼岸的困境(或许也是一部分全球的困境)。然所选取的案例有点同质化,新鲜感消失,后记对网络战的关注,不免让人联想霏霏,希望Twitter and Teargas 会更具整体感一点
0 有用 Steppenwolf 2022-05-19 07:58:04
本科选读过几个chapter,打算飞机上重读一遍然后去追星
1 有用 早起读书看报 2021-03-01 14:30:59
过完了,写的最好的是introduction……就是一本Twitter女性主义标签运动介绍,真的只是一本介绍,学理性太弱了,没看出来研究方法的意义……
1 有用 栞 2020-07-18 11:28:11
textbook 快速翻过,从占领华尔街到米兔到BLM,以及其他各种twitter上的hashtag movements做分析,但觉得写的不够深入。另外可能是我比较悲观,对作者们对twitter作为搞活动的平台的乐观态度,不太能认同(虽然他们也提到了这个platform存在的问题和审查等等)。